Euro Quotes - Page 6

• There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

  Mario Draghi

  Successful, Europe, Euro Crisis

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• Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.

  Mario Draghi

  Believe, Euro Crisis, Enough

  "ECB boss pledges to save the euro". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. July 27, 2012.

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• If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

  Mario Draghi

  Pay The Price, Euro Crisis, Benefits

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Europe, Half, Return

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• We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

  Francois Fillon

  Needs, Economic, Zone

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• In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

  Francois Fillon

  Order, Needs, Economic

  "French PM François Fillon to Urge Cameron to Help Bolster the Euro". Speech in the City of London, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

  Francois Fillon

  Decision, Britain, Importance

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• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Country, Wrath, Spain

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Moving, Europe, Unstable

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• As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Running, Breakup, Achievement

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• Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

  Jamie Dimon

  Years, Together, Unraveling

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• Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

  Mario Draghi

  Differences, Broken, Break

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga, Anna Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.

  Romano Prodi

  Army, Europe, Names

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• To promote the process of European integration, we must improve an institutional mechanism already existing in the European Union, reinforced co-operation, by making it more flexible and effective. This approach allows a few states to move faster and further... We are all aware that this mechanism is vital.

  Lionel Jospin

  Moving, Europe, Unions

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• We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Avant Garde, Unions

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• The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, United States, Next

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• Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.

  Harry Redknapp

  Squad, England, Should

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• We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

  Johannes Rau

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Government, Chance, Referendums

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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• Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.

  Terry Venables

  Play, Switzerland, One Time

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• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  David Stockman

  War, Japan, Advice

  "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" by David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2013.

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• We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Drug, Style

  "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.

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• So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.

  Romano Prodi

  Confused, Lying, Political Will

  "UK-U.S. ties puzzling, says Prodi". www.cnn.com. April 29, 2002.

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• We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Stress, Europe

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